RE: [linux-help] Re: Bad Memory Was: Bad Swap caused my new video card?

I've had good luck with hp, except for sound on my laptop. HP pavilion 
xh485.  My HP desktop is running linux now.  There are some pain in the 
butt vid card settings.  Go into the bios and disable the onboard video and 
unallocate the 4 meg of memory.

Mike

PS as life slows down, I will try to reinstall the voodoo3 card on linux. 
 I could not find anything which ran the TV tuner or the svideo in/out, or 
the video to TV out.



-----Original Message-----
From:	Clint Brubakken [SMTP:[email protected]]
Sent:	Thursday, January 30, 2003 9:13 AM
To:	[email protected]
Subject:	[linux-help] Re: Bad Memory  Was:  Bad Swap caused my new	video 
card?


I tried to get it to work with both video cards enabled, and emetest86
still gave errors. I took out the vodoo and it works slow but study. HP
or more accuratley SIS just seems to suck.

This vodoo card was working fine in a wintel dell box before I acquired
it.

My suggestion would be never use a HP. In fact I want to get them to buy
a Penguin Computing workstation, something that just works when I get
it, so I can actually do my job effectively.



On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 17:14, James Lancaster wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 January 2003 10:01, you wrote:
> > On 28 Jan 2003, Jonathan Hall wrote:
> > > Since he's using memtest86 when he gets the errors, and memtest86
> > > doesn't use X Windows, then the answer is obviously yes--the errors 
DO
> > > occur when not using X.
> >
> > it happened last night, X was crashed and logging caused more kernel
> > errors. Also yesterday afternoon, the hard drive started clicking, and 
ls
> > would hang. I unmounted the hard drive and set it horizintal , and
> > that seemed to fix that, I doubt that would be caused by the video 
card,
> > but maybe something I did when trying to get the <explitive deleted> 
case
> > apart.
> >
> > > My suggestions, in no particular order:
> > >
> > > Run memtest86 with the old video card in place.
> >
> > There were to setting I changed when I dissables the onboard video: I 
xset
> > the VGA setting jumper (VEN_DIS) to disable, and the VGA interrupt
> > selection to disable, which from the mother board discriptions the 
second
> > should disable the "chipsets internal interrupt routing", I assume only
> > for the onboard video only.
> >
>
> Try reenabling that, (VGA interrupt) that is likely the cause.
>
> I have a V3 2000 in a box (won't be able to see for a while (maybe a day 
or
> more, though it is likely one of the smallest uptime boxes running linux, 
due
> to moving it physically)
>
> also try lspci -vvv (I think -vv is max but not sure) and see what 
interrupt
> it has, and see if it is sharing it, and if the other video card is on 
there
> (should be but disabled, at least with a similar setup on the system 
above))
>
>
> James L
>
> > > Run memtest86 with another video card in place (get a cheap/free one 
if
> > > you can)
> > > Test the RAM in another machine.
> > > Test the Voodoo 3 in another machine.
> > > Try RAM from another machine in that box.
> > > Check your BIOS settings.  Perhaps you can tweak your RAM and/or PCI
> > > timings.
> > >
> > > Other questions:  What motherboard are you using?  What chipset does 
it
> > > use?  What CPU and RAM configuration?
> >
> > I am using a ASUS PSS-VN  with a K6-2 550 , i AM USING TO 128mb crucial
> > brand dimms.
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